It’s Halloween in August, guys. ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ is officially being revived for (what will obviously be) a terrifying remake! Freddy Kreuger is back, y’all. New …

Freddy Kreuger is back, y’all. New Line Cinema has officially announced plans to remake A Nightmare on Elm Street, the horrifying flick that has continued to haunt, well, everyone since it debuted in 1984. The script will be helmed by David Leslie Johnson, who also wrote 2009’s bone-chilling Orphan, so we know the reboot will be in the right–and totally twisted– hands.

Of course, the new film will see Freddy Krueger once again returning to terrorize the dreams of the innocent, according to The Wrap. No word yet on who will portray the demented bogeyman, originally made famous by Robert Englund, though it’s a safe bet that a younger star will be cast in the reimagined flick.

For those who don’t recall, the upcoming remake will not actually be the film’s first. Nope, back in 2010 we got another A Nightmare on Elm Street remake, this one starring Jackie Earle Haley as the slashing bad guy. That film, despite receiving pretty universal pans from critics, went on to gross a whopping $115 million worldwide, so it’s easy to see why another reboot seems like a swell idea.

I’m down for this. I had a half hour discussion on how terrible that reboot was, with Mr Englund, a few years ago. And Robert is the best Freddy.

Thought the remake was pretty legit, better than new nightmare by a damn stretch.

Either way meh, will be a good watch I guess, cant knock Elm Street.

Remake just introduced teens then slaughtered them. Nancy doesn’t even appear until part way through the second act. Spent a ton of time introducing you to the broad who gets dragged around the bedroom ceiling, instead.

Robert said something like “Killing teens in a horror film without giving us a reason to care is like shooting fish in a barrel.” And it’s true. In previous Freddy movies, up until the later ones, the death’s had meaning. When somebodies friend or girlfriend or boyfriend died, you felt bad. Here, it was just dude’s from the original showing up just to immediately get snuffed.

Add to that the sub plot about whether or not Freddy was innocent, and it just became hard to sit through.

im confused…if your movie made a good amount of money…why remake it? dont you remake on failing projects…not one that actually could suceed and flourish.

probably because nobody involved in the remake was coming back. So we get a new age Freddy movie with the OG himself.

edit: You can still make a Jason or Freddy movie, and make it profitable. They cost like 30-40 million dollars to make, and bring in like 100+. They just can’t pump em out as fast as they used to, in the 80’s and 90’s.

The remake wasn’t bad, why wouldn’t they just continue the “original” series?

I want a new Friday 13th sequel to the remake which was above and away the BEST horror remake ever. It is the only remake that I’ve seen to be better than every single one of the original movies. They’d be dumb not to continue in that direction.

My main problem with the remake was that they tried to mishmash several moments and one liners from the original series to the point to where it was just cringe worthy. It felt like they were trying so hard to be like “See? It’s just like the other ones!!”